“Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, delves into Eva’s long-term research on language, mother tongues and decolonial transmission practices through different generations and geographies.
The book explores in seven chapters the human as a turtle, the turtle as a human and the environment that intertwines Binnizá cosmologies with poetry, dreams, lullabies, migration policies, children books, family wounds, language resistance and its modes of becoming in this epistolary narrative.
Eva invited artist Valentina Jager to join this adventure with translation as an artistic practice and artist Alan Sierra, accompanies with his illustrations as a lyrical interpretation of the reading.”
A freeform essay that weaves together research on non-hegemonic languages and the author’s experiences with Dutch immigration policies, the text — translated by Valentina Jager — is interspersed with seed-based illustrations by Alan Sierra, the concept of the seed pops up throughout the text as well, graphic design by Dongyoung Lee.
Soft cover, 18,5 x 11,5 cm, 64 pages, ed/300, Rotterdam 2024
